Category Archives: Workshop

The bearing guide arm slides up and down and needs to be locked at the desired height. This is where we left the last session and we now need to make the arm lock.

Afternoon session to continue with the blade guide arm construction. Screwing down the MDF pieces that clamp the sliding arm.

Some workshop sessions are more rewarding than others, this is one of them. With the horizontal support arm and the upper wheel mount assembly all setup and test run with the blade we can start thinking about the blade guide … Continue reading →

During this session generally added more bracing to make the main vertical support and the upper wheel assembly horizontal arm more robust, to minimise shaking and vibration. More pine and a bracing board on the side.

With the saw now clamped down on the low table with just the lower wheel the shaking has been reduced to an acceptable level.

From the previous post removed the lower wheel to check again for run-out, wobble and balance etc.  Went through each one again, trimmed the rim a bit for run-out, cleaned up the crown and rebalanced the wheel again. Hmm nothing … Continue reading →

A big problem! Everything going along nicely until we got to a interesting stage, in fact a milestone for this bandsaw build. With tyres fitted to each wheel and mounted on the saw, motor assembly aligned and V-belt tensioned it’s … Continue reading →

Something I’ve been putting off is to prepare another shaft, actually aluminium tube, to mount the upper wheel.